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"Mirror" Mixtape (2022)
Featured Sludge Metal Album
Blind (Expanded Edition) (2021)
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Featured Melodic Death Metal Album
Madness (2017)
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Johnson City's Engulfed in Blackness bring Appalachian menace to brutal death metal, combining slamming breakdowns and relentlessly heavy riffwork with the raw ferocity of the Tennessee underground.
Born in Baltimore in 2021, Engulfed in Hate fuses brutal death metal's punishing low end with deathcore's structural violence, channeling the city's aggression into a suffocating sonic barrage.
Phoenix's Engulfer channels the desert's oppressive heat into straight-ahead death metal, delivering relentless riff-driven aggression tempered by the sun-baked Southwest since 2018.
Evansville's Engutturalment Cephaloslamectomy is exactly what the name promises — Indiana slam death metal taken to absurdist extremes, pairing guttural vocal savagery with knuckle-dragging slam breakdowns.
Akron's Enhailer drifts through the hazy overlap of stoner, doom, and sludge, conjuring thick, feedback-drenched riffs and narcotic tempos suited to the Rust Belt's industrial melancholy.
Virginia's Enhuman traffics in purposeful, relentless death metal — punishing rhythms and dense riffwork that reject ornamentation in favor of pure, mechanical devastation.
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San Jose's Enigma brings Silicon Valley precision to technical death metal, constructing labyrinthine song structures and fretboard acrobatics that reward close listening without sacrificing brutality.
Raleigh's Enigmatic Path plots a course through progressive thrash metal, weaving shifting time signatures and intricate arrangements around the aggressive riff-forward energy that defines the genre.
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